In: Advanced Math
1) Show that if A is an open set in R and k ∈ R \ {0}, then the set kA = {ka | a ∈ A} is open.
1. Given
is an open set and
To show that
open we need to show that every point of
is an interior point of
.
Let
be an arbitrary point .
As
is open and
so there exist
such that
Now we will show that
let
then
as
.
So
If we choose
the
.
So for each
there exist
such that
that is
is an interior point of
. As
is arbitrary so each point of
is an interior point of
.
Hence
is open .
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